Rose à Parfum de l’Hay

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This rose's location in the garden is the "old garden roses" area.
  • Classification: Hybrid Rugosa   
  • Flower Color:  medium red
  • Flower Size:  4 inches
  • Flower Form: large, double, globular
  • Petal Count:  26 to 40  
  • Fragrance: intense fragrance  
  • Repeat Bloomer: yes
  • Foliage: dark green
  • Plant Height: 4-6 feet  
  • Plant Width: 4-5 feet
  • Growth Habit: bushy, upright
  • Disease Resistant: yes 
  • Hybridizer: Gravereaux (France)
  • Registered: 1901
  • Parentage: (‘Summer Damask’ x ‘Général Jacqueminot’) x R. rugosa
  • ARS* Rating: 7.8 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • None
 
Notes:
  • “In 1894 at his country house near Paris, Hybridizer Jules Gravereaux established a rose garden that became world famous by 1910 for containing every known variety and species (over 8,000) of roses in the world. In 1901 Jules was sent by the French Minister of Agriculture to Bulgaria to learn essential oil distillation techniques for application to the French perfume industry. Two sumptuous roses with outstanding fragrances were bred specifically after the Bulgaria mission ('Rose à Parfum de l'Hay', 'Roseraie de l'Hay'). --- wizzley.com/rose-a-parfum-de-l-hay

  • “One might call Rosa rugosa the shar-pei of roses, because of the furrows that quilt its leaves (rugosa means “wrinkled” in Latin).  And like the dog, it comes from Asia.  But the resemblance ends there.  As prickly as they come, this is not a plant you’ll ever want to pet.  The Swedish botanist Carol Peter Thunberg (as in Rosa rugosa thunbergii, this plant’s botanical name) was the first Westerner known to set eyes on a rugosa in Japan where the seaside native goes by ‘Hama-nasu’ or ‘Hama-nashi’. Thunberg apparently garbled these words into Ramanas, the term he used in his illustrated Flora Japonica of 1784. Hama means “beach.” Nasu (“eggplant”) and nashi (‘pear’) refer to rugosas’ large red hips, one of nature’s best sources for vitamin C.” – Brenner & Scanniello (A Rose by Any Name, page 241).